Jack Nicholson quotes - page 3

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film. (Jack Nicholson)
Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
Jack Nicholson
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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My motto is: more good times.
Jack Nicholson
I'm definitely still wild at heart. But I've struck bio-gravity.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
Jack Nicholson
I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. (Jack Nicholson)
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
Jack Nicholson
I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
Jack Nicholson
Once I got started acting I loved it.
Jack Nicholson
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Jack Nicholson
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
Jack Nicholson
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. (Jack Nicholson)
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
Jack Nicholson
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson